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CORSET STAY.

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PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD JAMES JONES,

OF RICHMOND, COUNTY OF SURREY, ENGLAND.

CO RSET-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming par: of Letters Patent N 0.

Application filed October 10, 1887. Serial No. 251.951.

376,035, dated January 3, 1888.

(No model.) Patented in England March 19, 1886, No. 3,889, and

May 17, 1886. No. 6,578.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, EDWARD JAMES JONES, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Portland Villas,Richmond, in the county of Surrey, England, have invented new and useful side strips or frames with horizontal hinge-like action for stays and corsets, (for whichIhaveobtainedpatentsin GreatBritain, No. 3,889, dated March 19, 1886, and N 0. 6,578, dated May 17, 1886,) of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to stays for corsets, and has for its object to provide a corset-stay hinged at or aboutits center, whereby the corset the claim, due reference view of one of is rendered more flexible and comfortable to the wearer and liability of the breakage of the stay obviated; and to this end my invention consists in a corset-stay constructed and arranged substantially in the manner hereinafter described, and then specifically pointed out in being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1 is a view showing aportion of onehalf of a corset provided with stays made in accordance with 'my invention; Fig. 2, a side the stays detached from the corset; Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, detail views of modified forms of myimproved stay; Fig. 8, a View of a portion of one-half of a corset provided with a modified form of stay; Fig. 9, a side view of the stay shown in Fig. 8, and Fig. 10 a further modification of my improved stay.

In carrying out my invention I take two strips of wire and twist them together side by side at their centers to form a horizontal spiral,

A, the two pieces of wire being thus loosely interlocked, forming a species of hinge. The terminals of the wire are then bent in opposite direct-ions at right angles to the horizontal spiral till the ends B vO other. The ends of the terminals B O are next secured in metallic caps or pockets D, which are constructed and appliedin'the manner Well known in articles of this nature; or the ends of the terminals maybe soldered or otherwise fastened together in any well-known manner.

In some cases it may be deemed advisable to employ means for preventing the wires B G from separating or spreading, and in this event I employ a clasp, D, Fig. 3, consisting of a piece of sheet metal having its edges bent over and around the wires B 0, thus preserving the wires in parallelism and preventing them from spreading or approaching each other. This clasp may be made in one piece with the metallic capor pocket D, if desired, as is clearly shown in Fig.4,and in this case the stays would have greater stiffness; or, where great stiffness in the stays is required, the ends of the stays may be made flat, as shown in Fig. 5, and by bending said fiat ends one over the other, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, a still stiffer stay is provided.

When the wires B G are made flat, they may, if desired, be perforated in order to permit of the stay being sewed or eyeleted to the corset. Either of the stays above described is adapted to be slipped into pockets formed in the corset in the usual and well-known manner, as shown in Fig. 1; or they secured to the corset.

lie parallel to each' In Figs. 8 and 9 I have illustrated another method of forming the stays. In this method I take a suitable length of wire and bend it at its center to form one or more spiral loops, A, and then bend the ends B G of the wires parmay be sewed or otherwiseallel to each other and suitably secure together the ends, as before described. Another piece of wire, E, is then passed through the loops A and bent between the loops A to form U- shaped loops that are designed to reach substantially to the bottom of the corset. This same method of forming the hinge at the center of the stay may manifestly be employed in the different formsofstaysIhaveabovedescribed that is to say, together to form the horizontal spirals only one of the wires may be so twisted, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, and the other wire simply passed through the loops orspiral and the ends thereof then bent parallel to one another and secured,

as before described.

, In addition to the abovedescribed methods of forming the hinge in the stays, I employ still another method. method a piece of wire is first bent into U shape, and the lower portion is then bent over and back upon itself to form two eyes or loops, F F. A Wire is then passed through the eyes or loops F F and bent downwardly upon each side of said eyes or loops till the ends of the instead of twisting the wires In this last-mentioned wire are parallel and are secured together in the manner before described.

In all of the different forms of stays above described there is a hinge formed at or about the center of each, and when the stays are applied to a corset they will readily yield to the different strains they are subjected toin use without liability of fracture and will form a comfortable and durable corset.

Having thus described my invent-ion, what I claim is- Ast-ay for corsets,consisting of two U -shaped wires, one of said U shaped wires having a spiral twist at its closed extremity and the other U-shaped wire loosely engaging said spiral 15 twist at thesaid extremity to form aloose hinge, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD JAMES JONES.

Witnesses:

ROLAND DAWSON BLooMFmLD,

Notarys Clerk, TOBIAS GAINSFORD RIDGWAY,

Notary Public, Both of 19 Change Alley, London, E. O. 

